First Date
- Thread starter dmclone
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Lucky you only got 7 kids from that couch.
No. He was trying to recreate the first date for the proposal eight months later.
So based if those are the no goes, I wanna see a list of where to go?
A movie in Campustown (The Varsity?) and then a pitcher of beer at the Library. The theater is no longer there, but the Library lives on as Welch Avenue Station. We’ve been married 43 years.
Went to a cool local restaurant in our town that was an old train depot. Our second date was playing pool at Stix or whatever it was/is called in the Des Moines area. We ended up playing doubles against another couple that we were pretty sure were swingers.
Dated for a year or so. She was great, farm girl from South Dakota who was fairly religious led to the "we'd be terrible co parents" breakup conversation
Gentlemen, attention to detail and Drakkar Nior will make you irresistible.
Those are my takeaways
Brown Bottle Italian restaurant in West Ames. May it rest in peace. That was 43 years ago. Met her in a campustown bar at closing time a couple of weeks earlier. Still happily married.
Agreed. For a first date, the generic national chain restaurant seems to be ideal, no?
it's generally relatively inexpensive which is good for both if you want to pay for everything or if you're splitting the ticket, don't usually have to worry about waiting in line, these restaurants typically have a varied menu so don't have to worry about your date not finding anything they want to eat, and especially in blind date circumstances these types of restaurants work as good neutral territory and safe places.
The women surveyed must enjoy going to strip clubs, dark alleys, and parents' basements on first dates.I just saw a twitter post that got me thinking about my first date with my wife. Where did you go? Who paid?
We went to the Applebee's in Cedar Falls, I paid, and nearly 30 years later she still remembers what we both ate.
I want to know what women were surveyed. The Kardashians, Meghan Markle, and the Real Housewives of Beverly Hills?
We grabbed sushi, but what I'll remember is my future MIL made a multiple choice "test" to help me get a better feel for my future wife. Questions like sport(s) she played as a child mixed in with some light-hearted embarrassing stories from her youth. I'm sure it made my wife highly uncomfortable, but it made me fall for her (and her family) even more.
I mean I wouldn't go to any Burger King for any reason, so there's that.
The UNI library followed by pizza at the Pizza House, which was connected to the Stein. Took every bit of the $5.00 I had in my wallet for two slices of pizza and two sodas. Place was a complete **** hole.
I am sure she thought things couldn’t get any worse and everything would be looking up from there. That was 41 years ago and she hasn’t bailed yet.
I am sure she thought things couldn’t get any worse and everything would be looking up from there. That was 41 years ago and she hasn’t bailed yet.
I can get behind some of the things on the list, but what is wrong with a coffee date? Feels like a quick, cheap, and low pressure way to figure out if you have any chemistry with another person?